Blair Gershkow is a documentary and feature film editor with extensive experience across major American broadcast networks. His credits include work for PBS programmes such as The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer and Great Performances, as well as ABC’s Good Morning America and Nightline, Oprah!, and CBS’ 60 Minutes. His editing work reflects a long standing engagement with journalism, cultural programming, and long form documentary storytelling.
Gershkow edited Silicon Valley. The New Gold Rush for CNN and Fox 2 and 5, and The First Marines for Nightline, which won a National Emmy Award. In the cultural field, he edited the San Francisco Symphony series Keeping Score, which aired nationally on PBS. In 2008, he edited the independent documentary The Judge and the General, which also broadcast on PBS and received the prestigious DuPont Columbia Award, alongside nominations from the Directors Guild of America and the National Emmys.
In 2009, Gershkow edited the four part independent series Saving the Bay, narrated by Robert Redford, chronicling the history of San Francisco Bay. He later completed San Francisco Symphony at 100 in 2011, marking the orchestra’s centenary, a project that earned him his fourth Emmy Award. In 2012, he edited a biographical film on the jazz musician Wynton Marsalis, as well as the video created for the gala opening of SFJAZZ, the new concert venue in San Francisco.
Across his career, Blair Gershkow has built a reputation for editorial precision and narrative clarity, contributing to award winning projects that span investigative journalism, music, history, and cultural documentary.
